PSA: InfoPath and Office 2016

Office 2016 was just released today. I was so excited to download and install it. I have my reasons. Just ask those of you who get annoying junk mail notifications in Outlook 2013 how much you hate it. Yeah, Microsoft never fixed it.

I then started looking into how I should upgrade. Most easily done if you have an Office 365 subscription. Ok, cool. I then noticed that the InfoPath icon wasn’t included among the apps. We all know by now that InfoPath has been deprecated. I thought that maybe Microsoft would include the 2013 version with their 2016 suite, since they wouldn’t be upgrading it.

The answer is NO. If you have Office 2013 suite install with InfoPath 2013, that version of InfoPath will get wiped and removed along with your entire Office 2013 suite and upgraded to 2016. In order to create/modify InfoPath forms on Office 2016, you will need to reinstall InfoPath 2013. This will leave you with two “installations” of Office: 2016 and 2013.